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Most people I know delay their dreams and follow the standard script in life, “The American Dream.” Go to school and obtain an education so that you can get a good job, get married and buy a house with a white picket fence. Afterward, buy a car, have two to five kids, and get a dog. Perhaps one of the most exasperating things, yet we tend to follow this unwritten rule of how to live. We usually have a stable 9 to 5 job then spend the next ten years paying for the student loan we borrowed to get the stable job. Plus, we get a thirty-year mortgage to pay for the house with the white picket fence. After five years, we move to a bigger house and repeat the process. It is a vicious cycle, who came up with this?
I mean, it is all so predictable. When the car is not good enough, we trade it in for a newer model and continue to make car payments. The 48 inch 1080 TV is not good enough, we upgrade to the newer 65 inch 4K smart TV. On and on it goes. Caring for our kids and that greedy dog is very expensive. So we make a rational decision to stay home with the kids because it is cost effective; however, we must plan in advance for a simple date night with our partner. We delay our life, dreams, and happiness for the next 18 years hoping to resume it once the kids are out of the house, but they will never leave. We convince ourselves that we will go back to all the dreams we put on hold because somewhere in the game of life we forgot to also live.
You work and pay taxes for the next forty years until you are almost dead. You hope to make it to retirement so that you can enjoy life after. However, by that time you will be too old with little energy to enjoy it. You then sit on the couch and pay more bills until it’s your time to die. So you look in the mirror blankly and ask yourself, “where did the time go and what happened to my dream?” That dream you once had become a distant memory, and now you can’t get the time back. You have spent all your life working, paying bills and living according to the world’s unwritten rules. I refused to do this; I refused just to pay bills and die.
Do not let your life roll by and then regret the things that you did not do in life. Most people sit in their 9 to 5 offices during the week and look forward to Friday with a zeal that is unhealthy. How about living every day like it’s Friday? To Live Every Day Like Friday is a simple mindset starting with being happy with yourself. The trick is to find that work-life balance, do the things you are passionate about, focus on doing more of what makes you happy. It will never be the right time, so Live Every Day Like It’s Friday.